Sean Smyth ― Industrial Functional Printing

FUNCTIONAL INDUSTRIAL

PRINT MARKETS

Dr Sean Smyth

November 2015 Munich

Sean Smyth ― Industrial Functional Printing

Agenda

• What is Functional Industrial Printing?

• Market trends and forecasts

• Market sectors

• Printing processes in use

• Drivers & future growth opportunities

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Sean Smyth

• Print technologist

• Smithers Pira: researcher, author & consultant “Future of

Industrial Functional Printing to 2020”

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Functional Printing

• Using high volume printing technology to decorate items

where the print is not the prime product

• Excludes publication, graphics, packaging and textiles

• Value of the printing, not the printed item

• Décor and laminates; Ceramics; Electronics; Glass;

Automotive; Bio-medical; Promotional/miscellaneous;

3D Printing; Inkjet Textiles

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Industrial Functional Printing

©Smithers Pira “Future of Functional Industrial Printing to 2020”

9.9% CAGR 2015-20

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• Wallpaper

• Laminated printed worksurfaces and flooring, doors,

furniture, wallcoverings

• Gravure base paper print, some flexo/screen, now inkjet

Décor & laminates

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Single Pass Inkjet

• Inkjet making headway in volume production

• Schattdecor

• InterPrint

• KBA, Hymmen, Barberàn, Palis, and many traversing

head systems

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• Home, office, public building, wall and floor

• Crockery and plumbing

• Tile industry digitised rapidly with inkjet

• Screen, flexo, pad and inkjet (30%+ CAGR 2010-15)

Ceramics

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• At last promise is being realised

• Membrane switches, PCBs, RFID, displays and

components, OLEDs, batteries, photovoltaics, printed

circuits and devices

• Screen, flexo/gravure, pad and inkjet

Printed Electronics

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• At last promise is being realised

• Membrane switches, PCBs, RFID, displays and

components, OLEDs, batteries, photovoltaics, printed

circuits and devices

• Screen, flexo/gravure, pad and inkjet

Printed Electronics

12.7% CAGR 2015-20

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Bio-medical

• Capsules and pills

• Drug active ingredients

• Bio-sensors

• Medical devices

• Tissue and support structures, diagnostics

• Screen, pad, inkjet and 3D are used

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• Sheet glass, architectural inside & external

• hollow glass

• Glass touch screens in electronics

• Screen, pad and inkjet

Glass

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• Windows, dashboards, fascias, interiors, switches,

lamps, mirrors, badges, grilles

• Screen, pad, inkjet, some foiling

Automotive/aerospace

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• Parts, sportswear, promotional gifts, pens, rugby/

football/golf/baseballs, toys, power packs, memory

sticks, phone/tablet cases, mugs, keyrings, DVDs

• Skis, surfboards, helmets, watch faces, bags, tools . . . .

• Screen, pad printing and inkjet – some transfer

Promotional/miscellaneous

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• Parts, sportswear, promotional gifts, pens, rugby/

football/golf/baseballs, toys, power packs, memory

sticks, phone/tablet cases, mugs, keyrings, DVDs

• Skis, surfboards, helmets, watch faces, bags, tools . . . .

• Screen, pad printing and inkjet – some transfer

Promotional/miscellaneous

4.4% CAGR 2015-20

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Inkjet Textiles

• Roll-to-roll and Direct-to-Garment

• Reactive dyes, dye-sublimation (direct and transfer)

• Small and very large systems available

• Note acquisitions by Dover – MS and JK group; EFI

Reggiani

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• “It is printing – but not as we know it, Jim”

• Emerging technology, developing quickly, rapid

prototyping and many new applications

• Multiple materials and colours

• Inkjet, fluid deposition, FDM

• HP multi-jet fusion, and ecosystem

3D Printing

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• “It is printing – but not as we know it, Jim”

• Emerging technology, developing quickly, rapid

prototyping and many new applications

• Multiple materials and colours

• Inkjet, fluid deposition, FDM

• HP multi-jet fusion, and ecosystem

3D Printing

15.2% CAGR 2015-20

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• Screen

• Pad printing (indirect gravure)

• Gravure

• Other analogue (offset, flexo, foil, IMD)

• Inkjet (additive deposition)

• Bespoke stand-alone systems

• 3D methods, fused deposition modelling

Processes in use

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Industrial Printing

©Smithers Pira “Future of Functional Industrial Printing to 2020”

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Who is Doing this Print?

• Manufacturers, big & small

– LG Display investing 10 trillion Won in OLED production

• Specialist contract decorators

• Printing companies

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• Printers use their core skills in environmental and

electronics, partnering customers

• Toppan Printing $5.1bn of $12.7bn (2014-5fy)

• DaiNippon Printing $5.9bn of $12.2bn (2014-5fy)

• RR Donnelley CustomWave

• Developments in labs and universities

• Xerox-Thinfilm cooperation

Established Print Players

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• Printers use their core skills in environmental and

electronics, partnering customers

• Toppan Printing $5.1bn of $12.7bn (2014-5fy)

• DaiNippon Printing $5.9bn of $12.2bn (2014-5fy)

• RR Donnelley Waveform

• Developments in labs and universities

• Xerox-Thinfilm cooperation

Established Print Players

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• Printers use their core skills in environmental and

electronics, partnering customers

• Toppan Printing $5.1bn of $12.7bn (2014-5fy)

• DaiNippon Printing $5.9bn of $12.2bn (2014-5fy)

• RR Donnelley Waveform

• Developments in labs and universities

• Xerox-Thinfilm cooperation

Established Print Players

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So, this means what? . . . .

• Good growth opportunities, over $107bn by 2020

• Inkjet & electronics drive the growth

• 3D Printing is a brave new world

• Many opportunities for printers and their suppliers

• Beware the hype – look at real business benefits

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In 2020

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• Future of Industrial Decoration

& Printing to 2020

• Published in 2015

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Danke! Thank you for your attention!

Dr Sean Smyth – Print Consultant

Phone: +44 (0)1372 802113

Email: ssmyth@smithers.com

www.smitherspira.com

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